Priroda Module

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Priroda module. Priroda nature is a multisensor research module orbital complex for russia s orbital mir station peace dedicated to the observation of the environment. As its military sister ship the module spektr priroda stuck on the ground for years due to luck of funds. As with previous modules its configuration was based on the 77k tks module and was originally named kvant 3. It was launched on may 31 1990 on proton k.

Weighing nearly 20 tons the unit carries more than a. Priroda was the last mir module launched. It was originally an all soviet remote sensing module for combined civilian and military surveillance of the earth. Nasa copyright policy states that nasa material is not protected by copyright unless noted.

It docked to mir autonomously on june 10 1990. And spektr 1995 and priroda 1996 two science modules containing remote sensing instruments for ecological and environmental studies of earth. However due to delays and the fact that solar arrays were planned for other parts of mir a solar array was not included in the launch configuration. The spacecraft was intended for a wide range of remote sensing experiments.

It will be launched and attached at the end of 1995 to the inhabited space platform mir. The module priroda was a russian equivalent of nasa s mission to planet earth. Public domain public domain false false. Priroda was originally designed to carry a deployable solar array.

Roskosmos russian space agency ras russian academy of sciences rsc rocket space corporation energia s. The space module priroda is the technical base for the international scientific project priroda. Priroda module on april 23 1996 russia launched the mir module priroda nature on a proton launcher for rendezvous and docking with the space station on april 26.